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Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 13:24 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> And sched_clock's use of local_irq_save/restore appears to be absolutely
> correct, so I think it must be triggering a bug in either the self-tests
> or lockdep itself.

Why does sched_clock need to disable interrupts?

Daniel